The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-06-25

forfeited to the State, less commission OF per
cent. to the Sheriff for collection. Mr.. Welty
gets nothing.
Buffalo Bill has written letter to the au-
burn.haired Thomas P. 0chitree, in which he
says :'Ive got the big bugs solid, from the Queen
down.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, receives a
pension from the United States government of S45
q month, the whole Of which he devotes to chari-
table purposes.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, says he smiles
when men talk to him of working eight and nine
hours day, because he works from twelve to
seventeen hours himself.
John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt and
D. Willis James have each contributed 100000
to the fund for the proposed Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral in New York. A popular subscription
will soon be started.
The Board of Alderman of New York City have
appointed Miss Minna r. Pollock, well-known
translator and law typewriter, as Commissioner
of Deeds, her name being substituted for that OF
Ex-Assemblyman Roche. The appointment was
made by twenty-one votes against one.
General Buckner's candidacy for Governor OF
Kentucky has developed the fact that when his
cououeror, Grant, was in financial trouble he offer
ed him his check for 900 for personal use. The
offer was declined, but the hero of Appomattox
often referred to the incident as which pleased
him highly.
Archbishop Lynch, OF Toronto, has issued the
following order to all priests in his diocese in On
tario: you will please announce to your people
that we have determined to grant no dispensations
for mixed marriages when the woman is q nom
Catholic. Experience Of many years has proved
that Protestant mother cannot raise her children
Catholics, and she is thus unable to comply with
the essential condition on which such dispense
ton is granted. They may apply to Rome direct
if they WILL
The "Book Buyer" states that the $494,6OO
which Mrs. Grant has received from the sale of
her husbands work represents 20 per cent of the
gross profits on the publication, which have thus
amounted to about $706,600 The gross receipts
from the sale of the work have amounted to not
far from $1,000, 900. There have been sold 3l2,-
900 sets, at an average of, probably, SO set,
which foots up ,808 000-a fair estimate of what
the public has paid for this work. The skins of
1000 goats and 10000 sheep have been used for
the covers of these volumes.
The organ is making its way among the
United Presbyterians, says the Philadelphia Times
It is not many years since instrumental music OF
any kind was regarded as device Of the devil
by both preachers and laity in this denomination.
But the organ has been introduced in some churches
and its friends have become numerous enough to
prevent the passage of any resolution by the Gen.
eral Assembly condemnat0ry of its use. The I'M
portance Of this negative victory on the part OF
the progressive element of the denomination is
considerable. While the organ has not been for
mally Endorsed, the failure to secure its absolute
condemnation leaves individual congregations free
to introduce it if they wish, and the cause OF the
organ is likely to gain rather than lose before the
meeting of another General Assembly.